nxos_aaa_server_host - Manages AAA server host-specific configuration.¶

New in version 2.2.

Synopsis
Parameters
Notes
Examples
Return Values
Status
Maintenance
- Support
- Author

Synopsis ¶

Manages AAA server host-specific configuration.

Parameters ¶

Parameter		Choices/Defaults	Comments
acct_port			Alternate UDP port for RADIUS accounting or keyword 'default'.
address required			Address or name of the radius or tacacs host.
auth_port			Alternate UDP port for RADIUS authentication or keyword 'default'.
encrypt_type		Choices: 0 7	The state of encryption applied to the entered key. O for clear text, 7 for encrypted. Type-6 encryption is not supported.
host_timeout			Timeout period for specified host, in seconds or keyword 'default. Range is 1-60.
key			Shared secret for the specified host or keyword 'default'.
provider			Deprecated Starting with Ansible 2.5 we recommend using `connection: network_cli`. This option is only required if you are using NX-API. For more information please see the NXOS Platform Options guide. A dict object containing connection details.
	username		Configures the username to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This value is used to authenticate either the CLI login or the nxapi authentication depending on which transport is used. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable `ANSIBLE_NET_USERNAME` will be used instead.
	authorize bool (added in 2.5.3)	Choices: no ← yes	Instructs the module to enter privileged mode on the remote device before sending any commands. If not specified, the device will attempt to execute all commands in non-privileged mode. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable `ANSIBLE_NET_AUTHORIZE` will be used instead.
	ssh_keyfile		Specifies the SSH key to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This argument is only used for the cli transport. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable `ANSIBLE_NET_SSH_KEYFILE` will be used instead.
	use_proxy bool (added in 2.5)	Choices: no yes ←	If `no`, the environment variables `http_proxy` and `https_proxy` will be ignored.
	auth_pass (added in 2.5.3)	Default: none	Specifies the password to use if required to enter privileged mode on the remote device. If authorize is false, then this argument does nothing. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable `ANSIBLE_NET_AUTH_PASS` will be used instead.
	host required		Specifies the DNS host name or address for connecting to the remote device over the specified transport. The value of host is used as the destination address for the transport.
	timeout (added in 2.3)	Default: 10	Specifies the timeout in seconds for communicating with the network device for either connecting or sending commands. If the timeout is exceeded before the operation is completed, the module will error. NX-API can be slow to return on long-running commands (sh mac, sh bgp, etc).
	use_ssl bool	Choices: no ← yes	Configures the transport to use SSL if set to true only when the `transport=nxapi`, otherwise this value is ignored.
	password		Specifies the password to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This is a common argument used for either cli or nxapi transports. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable `ANSIBLE_NET_PASSWORD` will be used instead.
	validate_certs bool	Choices: no yes	If `no`, SSL certificates will not be validated. This should only be used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates. If the transport argument is not nxapi, this value is ignored.
	port	Default: 0 (use common port)	Specifies the port to use when building the connection to the remote device. This value applies to either cli or nxapi. The port value will default to the appropriate transport common port if none is provided in the task. (cli=22, http=80, https=443).
	transport required	Default: cli	Configures the transport connection to use when connecting to the remote device. The transport argument supports connectivity to the device over cli (ssh) or nxapi.
server_type required		Choices: radius tacacs	The server type is either radius or tacacs.
state		Choices: present ← absent	Manage the state of the resource.
tacacs_port			Alternate TCP port TACACS Server or keyword 'default'.

Notes ¶

Note

Tested against NXOSv 7.3.(0)D1(1) on VIRL
Changes to the host key (shared secret) are not idempotent for type 0.
If state=absent removes the whole host configuration.
For information on using CLI and NX-API see the NXOS Platform Options guide
For more information on using Ansible to manage network devices see the Ansible Network Guide
For more information on using Ansible to manage Cisco devices see the Cisco integration page.

Examples ¶

# Radius Server Host Basic settings
  - name: "Radius Server Host Basic settings"
    nxos_aaa_server_host:
        state: present
        server_type: radius
        address: 1.2.3.4
        acct_port: 2084
        host_timeout: 10
        host: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
        username: "{{ un }}"
        password: "{{ pwd }}"

# Radius Server Host Key Configuration
  - name: "Radius Server Host Key Configuration"
    nxos_aaa_server_host:
        state: present
        server_type: radius
        address: 1.2.3.4
        key: hello
        encrypt_type: 7
        host:  inventory_hostname }}
        username: "{{ un }}"
        password: "{{ pwd }}"

# TACACS Server Host Configuration
  - name: "Tacacs Server Host Configuration"
    nxos_aaa_server_host:
        state: present
        server_type: tacacs
        tacacs_port: 89
        host_timeout: 10
        address: 5.6.7.8
        host:  inventory_hostname }}
        username:  un }}
        password:  pwd }}

Return Values ¶

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key	Returned	Description
changed boolean	always	check to see if a change was made on the device Sample: True
end_state dict	always	k/v pairs of configuration after module execution Sample: {'host_timeout': '10', 'address': '1.2.3.4', 'auth_port': '2084', 'server_type': 'radius'}
existing dict	always	k/v pairs of existing configuration
proposed dict	always	k/v pairs of parameters passed into module Sample: {'host_timeout': '10', 'address': '1.2.3.4', 'auth_port': '2084', 'server_type': 'radius'}
updates list	always	command sent to the device Sample: ['radius-server host 1.2.3.4 auth-port 2084 timeout 10']

Status ¶

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

Maintenance ¶

This module is flagged as network which means that it is maintained by the Ansible Network Team. See Module Maintenance & Support for more info.

For a list of other modules that are also maintained by the Ansible Network Team, see here.

Support ¶

For more information about Red Hat’s support of this module, please refer to this Knowledge Base article

Author ¶

Jason Edelman (@jedelman8)

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